Chapter 495

After hearing Roxanne’s reply, Archie and Benny became concerned. “So, are you still going, Mommy?” they asked.

Roxanne read their minds, and shook her head passively.

The two boys thought she meant she was not going, so they anxiously tugged at her and whined, “Mommy, you gave us your promise, so you can’t take back your word! If you don’t want to talk to Mr. Farwell, we will keep him from you!”

Roxanne was amused by their reactions. She ruffled their hair affectionately and assured them, “Don’t worry. Since I gave you my word, I will definitely honor it. Moreover, Ms. Ward has already finalized the groupings, so mommy can’t possibly trouble her to make changes now, can I?”

The boys heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing her assurance.

However, Roxanne’s heart sank as she thought about the one she had to partner with. “Do you know which play we are doing?” she probed.

that the children drew lots to see which play they

to his bag and dug into it for a while. Then he came back with a piece of crumpled paper, likely the piece they got from the draw earlier

spot after she took a look at that

on the paper were the words Sleeping Beauty. For the benefit of the children, their teacher even added phonetic alphabets

do you know this story?” Benny looked up at Roxanne

also would not pick fairy tales about princes and princesses for the boys. As such, the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty was alien to Archie and

at a loss for words, not knowing how to answer Benny’s

imagine the roles of Sleeping Beauty and the prince would likely fall on her and Lucian. Knowing

Sleeping Beauty, Roxanne would never have agreed to participate. Alas, it was too late

kids and said, “Mommy’s going to make a phone call, so you

obediently nodded their

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